MongoDB Monitoring Service – Installation and Set Up

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Sankeerth Reddy | Comments(0)

MongoDB Monitoring Service or MMS is a free monitoring application developed by the MongoDB team to manage and troubleshoot MongoDB deployments. Once set up correctly, you get a bunch of metrics that can be very useful during troubleshooting production issues.

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Multi-Node OpenStack Icehouse installation on AWS using RDO

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(13)

In my previous blog, I wrote about my experience installing a single-node OpenStack Icehouse on a desktop/laptop using RDO. In this blog I will be demonstrating how to set up a simple Multi-Node OpenStack installation on AWS (Amazon Web Services).

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Try OpenStack Icehouse with RDO

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(2)

OpenStack’s 9th release Icehouse is here and I decided to give it a spin. I will be performing the installation on RHEL 6.5 and what better way to try out OpenStack than Red Hat’s RDO. For starters RDO is a community version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.

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5 Reasons why DynamoDB is better than MongoDB

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(8)

If you are considering MongoDB or any other NoSQL databases, its a must that you consider DynamoDB. In the MongoDB vs DynamoDB matchup, DynamoDB has a lot of brilliant features that help ease the pain of running NoSQL clusters. Below I give five reasons to choose DynamoDB over MongoDB.

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OpenStack ICEHOUSE is here to chill you this summer

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

April 17th marked the availability of the 9th release of OpenStack. Code named “ICEHOUSE” it comes at a right time in Summer to chill you with a staggering 350 new features. Keep aside the gimmick and that’s what I call a “Community Effort”.

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New Service Alert: Windows Azure ExpressRoute

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(2)

Currently in public preview & available only in the US, Windows Azure ExpressRoute is a service that provides a dedicated fast private connection between your on-premise datacenter and Azure datacenter.

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Sample Questions for MongoDB Certified DBA (C100DBA) exam – Part II

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Sankeerth Reddy | Comments(10)

Here are some more sample questions for C100DBA: MongoDB Certified DBA Associate Exam.

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Sample Questions for MongoDB Certified DBA (C100DBA) exam – Part I

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Sankeerth Reddy | Comments(20)

Below are some of the sample questions Sample Questions for C100DBA: MongoDB Certified DBA Associate Exam. You can read more about the MongoDB Certified DBA Exam here.

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TOP 5 Cloud Predictions for 2014

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

Cloud market is just getting hotter and more unpredictable. There is a lot of momentum in the Enterprise as well as startup space. Below are my top cloud predictions for 2014.

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Resource level Permission for EC2

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Sankeerth Reddy | Comments(0)

Elastic Cloud Compute has proven to be a flagship service provided by Amazon Web Service where one could allocate and use powerful computing resources (EC2 Instances) with ease. Using EC2, one can perform complex operations like allocating virtual resources for development, testing, production with few clicks.

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